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County hazard profile

Bossier, LA

Louisiana · pop. 128,536 · FIPS 22015

Relatively Moderate
FEMA risk rating · RATING
Ice Storm
dominant hazard
$48M
modeled expected annual loss/yr

Expected annual loss · all 3,232 U.S. counties

among the lowest nationally

national median $15M/yr Bossier $48M

A real dollar distribution: most counties sit far below a handful of high-exposure ones. A FEMA model of annual loss, not a record of disasters.

FEMA national percentile scores

FEMA/CDC score each county 0–100 against all others — the score is the national rank (RATING). Higher risk and vulnerability are worse; higher resilience is better.

FEMA risk indexRelatively Moderate 82.54/100
national median ~50 higher than 83% of counties
Social vulnerabilityRelatively Moderate 41.48/100
national median ~50 near the national middle (41st percentile)
Community resilienceRelatively Low 35.59/100
national median ~50 lower than most counties (36th percentile)

Recorded · NFIP flood claims RECORDED

Realized flood losses in Bossier

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid 1,098 flood-insurance claims totaling $26.0M in Bossier since 1978. The costliest year was 2016 ($12.1M paid).

Flood-insurance dollars paid by year of loss

1978: $22,714 paid 1979: $94,396 paid 1981: $386 paid 1982: $46,331 paid 1983: $21,775 paid 1985: $4,680 paid 1986: $185,885 paid 1987: $17,549 paid 1988: $4,308 paid 1989: $195,855 paid 1990: $32,418 paid 1991: $2,085,834 paid 1992: $20 paid 1993: $20,628 paid 1995: $1,272 paid 1996: $143,922 paid 1997: $1,480,283 paid 1998: $53,961 paid 1999: $2,228,144 paid 2000: $12,985 paid 2001: $67,549 paid 2002: $99,365 paid 2003: $4,653 paid 2004: $5,910 paid 2005: $320,088 paid 2007: $17,906 paid 2008: $208,622 paid 2009: $1,586,799 paid 2010: $0 paid 2011: $1,000 paid 2012: $45,558 paid 2013: $1,174 paid 2014: $1,573 paid 2015: $3,822,498 paid 2016: $12,100,666 paid 2017: $4,624 paid 2018: $30,080 paid 2019: $604,827 paid 2020: $113,556 paid 2021: $3,932 paid 2022: $0 paid 2023: $44,618 paid 2024: $34,536 paid 2025: $229,887 paid 2016 · $12.1M 1978 2025
$26.0M
total paid
$23,682
average claim
$350K
largest single claim
78%
in high-risk flood zones (A/V)

RECORDED — these are actual paid NFIP claims (a redacted census from OpenFEMA), not a model. They are the realized counterpart to the FEMA risk score above: one is what happened and got paid, the other is what a model predicts.

Scope: these are flood-insurance claims, so they undercount flooding where owners were uninsured — read this as "what NFIP paid here," not "every flood." County-level totals, not a per-property or per-address verdict. Verify a specific address and buy coverage at FloodSmart.gov; the underlying data is OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims.

What these figures mean

  • RATING — the FEMA risk score, expected loss, social vulnerability, and resilience are FEMA/CDC models, not records of disasters that happened. The 0–100 scores are already national percentiles.
  • MEASURED — population is a recorded census figure.
  • COMPUTED — the county's rank within the dollar-loss distribution is our placement over the 3,232 counties.
  • CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.

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What this is — and is not

This is FEMA/CDC modeled hazard exposure for Bossier, LA and where it ranks among U.S. counties. It is not a verdict on whether Bossier is a good or bad place to live — hazard exposure is not place quality, and a county can't opt out of its geography. It is not a per-property or per-address risk assessment, not a prediction of any specific disaster, and not insurance advice. For site-specific risk use a per-property assessment; for the underlying model see FEMA National Risk Index.